Freddy vs. Jason was the #1 movie at the box office for the second week in a row. Truly, we’ve abandoned all hope of good taste.

Well, I finally won an eBay auction today for a new monitor. It’s a flat-screen Dell UltraSharp 20 incher. Should be pretty nice. I know a bunch of people who have one and they all love them. $770 seems like a lot to pay for a monitor, but I figure it all works out. The …

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I’m proud to annouce that Yahoo! News is now available as RSS feeds. Please consume.

You’ve got to give a company credit when their PR person can say something like this: “It’s time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he’s normally accustomed to,” Fox News spokeswoman Irena Steffen said.

Who said only tennis players can have tantrums on the field?

Here’s something that doesn’t happen to me every day: I nearly got arrested.

“I can’t be lactose-intolerant – I’m Dutch!” — Overheard

One of my oldest friends (from high school) told me today that he’s moving from from the Bay Area and back to the east coast. That’s sad news, it was really nice to have someone from NH around here. We had some fun getogethers. It brings up the issue again of when our west coast …

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One part of The Tech museum yesterday had plaques on the walls with various interesting/amusing quotes about space. A few of them were: “Don’t kill me, you’re from outer space!” – Alien “I’m not from outer space, I just work there” – Captain Kirk “Wherever you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai And my …

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While I was listening to NPR yesterday, I realized that their “ads”, read by NPR staff, are basically the equivalent of the text ads in search engines like Yahoo Search. They’re usually highly relevent to the audience, but subtle enough to not overpower the content.